The Louisville IceHawks played for four
seasons (1990-1994) in Broadbent Arena, and practiced at Iceland (later to
become Pantherland, then in June 2002 renamed Iceland once again).The seating capacity for Broadbent
Arena was 6,618.The ice surface
was 200’x85’.All Monday-Saturday
games started at 7:35 PM.Sunday
games started at 6:00 PM.

The local Louisville newspaper The
Courier Journal ran a name the team contest. Out of more than 16,000 entries,
185 people suggested the name IceHawks. Eileen Moss won from the pool of 185.

The team colors were:

HOME – white with black, sunflower yellow
& burnt orange

ROAD – Black with white, sunflower yellow
& burnt orange

The Icehawks made the playoffs in their
innaugural season (1990-1991), and swept the Brabham Cup winners, the Knoxville
Cherokees in game three to advance to ther semifinals (3-2OTW, 6-5W, 2-1W). The
Icehawks were eliminated by the Greensboro Monarchs in game four of the second
round (6-4L, 4-2L, 6-3L, 4-2L).

In the 1991-1992 season, the Icehawks
once again made it to the playoffs and like the prior year, faced that season's
Brabham Cup winner, the Toledo Storm. They eliminated the Storm in game five
(4:3OTL, 4:3W, 5:2W, 5:2W, 6:5W). Louisville got a bie and went on to Round 3.
The IceHawks then faced the Cincinnati Cyclones for the 3rd round of the
semifinals. Cincinnati was eliminated in game four (6-5L, 6-4W, 5-3W, 6-4W) and
the IceHawks went on to face the defending cup champions, the Hampton Roads
Admirals in the Riley Cup championship round. The IceHawks fell to the Admirals
in four games (4-3OTL, 5-2L, 4-0TL, 8-3L).

The IceHawks did not make the finals in
the 1992-1993 season.

The 1993-1994 season again had the
Icehawks facing the season's Brabham Cup winner, the Knoxville Cherokees, in
the first round of playoffs. As in previous seasons, the IceHawks eliminated Knoxville.
They were in turn eliminated by the Birmigham Bulls in the next round of
playoffs.

After the 1993-1994 season, the team went
inactive. It was moved to Florida to become the Jacksonville Lizard Kings in
the 1995-1996 season.

The home of the Louisville IceHawks radio
broadcasts from 1990-1993 was WWKY AM 790 Louisville.In 1992, while WWKY broadcast all 64 games, WIEL AM 1400 Elizabethtown also broadcast
all 32 road games.

You can view Louisville IceHawks ticket
price history in the Ticket prices page.

From
1990-1993, the IceHawks' home colors were white with black, sunflower yellow, and
burnt orange. The away colors were black with white, sunflower yellow, and
burnt orange. In the final season (1993-1994), the team colors were reported as
black, red, yellow, and white. The IceHawks mascot was Tommy Hawk.

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You can view all of the former Louisville IceHawks' career
statistics by clicking Ralph Slate's Hockeydb.com or you can click on the player's
name below and view only his stats. Also, any players who played in Europe
have a "Eurostats" link to their stats page at Mike Ewer's Eurohockey.net.